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| Empresa: |
BUenos Aires Volunteer |
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| Título del Empleo: |
Social Assistant |
| Categoría de Trabajo: |
Voluntario |
| Localización del Empleo: |
Ciudad de Buenos Aires - Ciudad de Buenos Aires - Argentina |
| Descipción del Empleo: |
Area of Social Work: Community Development
Host Organization : computer recycle project in a men´s prison (*)
This is an organization that works upon the inclusion of convicts in educational and work programs.
Their office is located in Recoleta, next to Retiro bus station, where the staff works in the administration and computer recycling.
This organization is run by the founder-director-, and works with volunteers and ex convicts, who started working with them in jail and continued after they came out, finding in this project a new way of life.
Every Friday, volunteers and staff go to one prison in the suburbs of Buenos Aires and work in three different workshops with the convicts:
- Computer science workshop: convicts that have already learnt at this workshop, teach how computer systems work to the new participants. This workshop is similar to a class or course to become a computer technician.
- Computer recycling workshop: the organization receives, as a donation, company´s old computers, that will be taken to pieces in this workshop. Technicians that have finished the first workshop, will recycle these equipments building new and better computers that will be afterwards donated to schools from all around the country.
- Judicial workshop: convicts can consult their legal doubts, do research, study former cases that might help answering their actual questions.
The main idea is to give these men the possibility of doing something productive while they are in jail. By becoming computer technicians, they get a very useful working tool which could be a door out of unemployment and poverty when they come out.
Volunteers can work in the projects that the organization is already developing, or they can also develop their own projects. A possibility for this could be teaching a special class of an artistic skill that the volunteer has, or even a more academic course, such as literature, philosophy, etc.
Language Requirements: Spanish: Intermediate / English: Advanced
General Requirements: - Have taken BAV´s Spanish course before starting to work
- Be prepared to work hard
- In case the volunteer develop his/her own project, this should be prepared and sent to the director before in working in a
- There are no restrictions for women to work as volunteers in this prison (the director of this organization is a women), even though female volunteers have to take into serious consideration whether they feel prepare to work in such a hostile environment or not.
Objectives: - To commit with a social project that helps to improve the actual living conditions of the community.
- To apply your Spanish knowledge in a work environment
- To develop advanced Spanish vocabulary related to the social work field
- To gain international experience in social work
- To learn and advance personally and professionally
Duties / Responsabilities: - Help in fundraising
- Develop an international network of contacts that are interested in sponsoring the organization
- Translations
- Help in the actual workshops
- Depending on the Spanish level and previous qualifications volunteers can develop their own project to work with convicts inside the prison.
Schedule: Mondays to Thursdays in the mornings (volunteers can commit less days a week if they prefer). Fridays from early in the morning the staff works in the prison.
Start Date: Flexible
Minimum Commitment: 2 months
Maximum Duration: 12 months
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| Requerimientos de Idioma: |
Inglés-BuenoEspañol-Bueno
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| Tipo de Empleo: |
Tiempo Parcial
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| Sueldo: |
No especificado
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| Día de envío: |
21 abr 2008 |
| Nivel de Estudio: |
Sin especificar
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| Experiencia (Años): |
Sin experiencia |
| Empresa: |
BUenos Aires Volunteer |
| Nombre de Contacto: |
BUenos Aires Volunteer |
| Teléfono de Contacto: |
0047-99570588 |
| Método de Preferencia del contacto: |
Ninguna Preferencia |
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